Conventional partial pancreatoduodenectomy versus an uncinate first, extended partial pancreatoduodenectomy approach for the resection of pancreatic head cancer: the randomized, controlled PancER trial.

In addition, all other postoperative complications as assessed via the Clavien–Dindo classification were evenly distributed between the two groups ( Table 4 ) However, patients in the extended PD group showed a trend toward slightly higher rates of diarrhea on clinical examination, with 29.2 % grade 1, 20.8 % grade 2, and no grade 3 diarrhea vs. 23.1 % grade 1, no grade 2, and 3.8 % grade 3 diarrhea in the conventional PD group (p=0.06).

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